Unity (简体中文)

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Unity is an alternative shell for the GNOME desktop environment, developed by Canonical in its Ayatana project. It consists of several components including the Launcher, Dash, lenses, Panel, indicators, Notify OSD and Overlay Scrollbar. Unity used to available in two implementations: 'Unity' is the 3D accelerated version, which uses Compiz window manager and Nux toolkit; and 'Unity 2D' is a lighter alternative, which uses Metacity window manager and Qt toolkit. Unity 2D is already dropped by Canonical from Ubuntu 12.10. Instead a version powered by Gallium3D llvmpipe alternative is used.

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安装

有两种途径可供选择：

从源码编译安装

添加软件源安装

源码安装

All of the pkgbuilds can be browsed in Github repository, where Unity-For-Arch provides a minimal working Unity shell, Unity-For-Arch-Extra provides some additoinal applications including lightdm-ubuntu(lightdm with ubuntu patch), light-themes, ubuntu-tweak(a popular ubuntu tweak tool) and so on.